Many global environmental threats are driven by human behavior and require behavioral solutions. Researchers in the field have recently explored sciences as core to changing for conservation, yet leveraging emotions remains an underused tool change compared others like social norms. Humans experience a range of that each cause distinct patterns depending on unique contexts evolved over time; th...

Even though there are several differences and disadvantages for SMEs, there are also some advantageous aspects for them, including the possibility of adopting simpler life cycle engineering methods and avoiding organisational problems that are typical in largesized company. They should make their own suitable strategies based on understanding the relation of economical, technical, and environme...

Farmers, policy makers, and other stakeholders seek tools to quantitatively assess pesticide risks for mitigating pesticide impacts on ecosystem and human health. This paper presents the Pesticide Use Risk Evaluation (PURE) decision support system (DSS) for evaluating site-specific pesticide risks to surface water, groundwater, soil, and air across pesticide active ingredient (AI), pesticide pr...

The endogenous complexity and spatial nature of the problems encountered in the urban water management environment present decision-makers with three major problems: (a) in the urban environment, every decision is site-specific, almost on a case-by-case basis, (b) the decision-maker must access, simultaneously, a large amount of information, increasing with rising spatial resolution and (c) the...

The University of Hertfordshire, in collaboration with two UK agricultural establishments are developing a decision support system for environmental management in arable agriculture. The system aims to encourage and promote best practice. Significant environmental effects from arable agriculture arise from the use of fertilisers, pesticides and unsustainable soil management practices. The softw...

This paper presents the conceptual design of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) proposed for Victoria’s Westernport region that aims for the sustainable and integrated (whole-of-catchment) management of regional natural resources. It is a solution integrating a range of approaches including, GIS technology, a scenario management tool, state-of-art terrestrial and marine models, environmen...

Managing uncertainty and risk is an increasing challenge for running profitable grazing systems. There is continual pressure to increase efficiency and productivity, while at the same time there is mounting scrutiny of the impact of grazing systems on the environment. Of particular interest is the impact of nitrogen and phosphorus losses from grazed pasture systems to water and the atmosphere. ...